While most sports journalists just comment on sports, Schwarz has changed sports forever. A reporter for The New York Times, Schwarz has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his dozens of high-profile articles that have exposed the epidemic of sports-related concussions.

Schwarz' stories have helped uncover the high rates of dementia among retired National Football League players, unsafe conditions on high school fields, and concussion-related disorders among female youth athletes in soccer and basketball.

His Aug. 18 analysis of how Lou Gehrig might not have had A.L.S., known as Lou Gehrig's disease,was merely the latest of his stories that have made national news.

Also in attendance:

M. Quentin Williams - lawyer and sports media mogul

Leonard Marshall - former 3-time Pro-Bowl Selected NFL Player

This unforgettable discussion is sure not to disappoint sports fans, journalism students, and business-minded academics alike.